Read complete books and articles on: Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse - d. 1877, war chief of the Oglala Sioux. He was a prominent leader in the Sioux resistance to white encroachment in the mineral-rich Black Hills. When Crazy Horse and his people refused to go on a reservation, troops attacked (Mar. 17, 1876) their camp on Powder River. Crazy Horse was victorious in that battle as well as in his encounter with Gen. George Crook on the Rosebud River

11 of the Best Books and Articles on: Crazy Horse

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The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History » Read Now
by Richard G. Hardorff. 288 pgs.

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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 (Chap. 9 "War or Peace: The Anxious Wait for Crazy Horse") » Read Now
by R. Eli Paul. 248 pgs.

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Addressing the Nebraska Indian Wars between 1865 and 1877, this anthology of well-written articles from the journal NEBRASKA HISTORY is the essential introduction to a bitterly contested period in the state's history. R. Eli Paul has assembled a first-rate anthology of eyewitness accounts and the...
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Addressing the Nebraska Indian Wars between 1865 and 1877, this anthology of well-written articles from the journal NEBRASKA HISTORY is the essential introduction to a bitterly contested period in the state's history. R. Eli Paul has assembled a first-rate anthology of eyewitness accounts and the most significant historical scholarship on the subject. 32 photos. map.
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Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains ("Crazy Horse" begins on p. 83) » Read Now
by Charles A. Eastman. 246 pgs.

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This book contains biographical vignettes of fifteen great Indian leaders, most of them Sioux and some of them, like Red Cloud and Rain-in-the-Face, friends and acquaintances of Eastman. He pays tribute to Little Wolf, the Cheyenne chief whom he knew well, and described the noble career of Chief...
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This book contains biographical vignettes of fifteen great Indian leaders, most of them Sioux and some of them, like Red Cloud and Rain-in-the-Face, friends and acquaintances of Eastman. He pays tribute to Little Wolf, the Cheyenne chief whom he knew well, and described the noble career of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, who received his assistance in drawing up a document of grievances presented to the government in 1897. In finely honed prose Eastman cuts to the essence of his subjects, including Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Little Crow, Gall, Two Strike, American Horse, Dull Knife, Roman Nose, Hole-in-the-Day, and Tamahay.
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The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Discussion of Crazy Horse begins on p. 168) » Read Now
by Black Elk, John Gneisenau Neihardt. 456 pgs.

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...return to Fort Robinson and the killing of Crazy Horse , 202 Crazy Horse , 203 The escape to Canada and fighting...1870s. In 1877, after the Oglala war leader Crazy Horse...
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Indian Fights and Fighters ("Miles' Crushing Defeat of Crazy Horse at Wolf Mountain" begins on p. 326) » Read Now
by Cyrus Townsend Brady. 424 pgs.

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...we marched west to Mussa ranch, crossed Horse Creek, and followed the Bozeman trail...was a very hard one, thirty-six miles to Crazy Womans Fork. This creek was a very...
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With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History (Chap. Twelve "Crazy Horse, Tasunka Witco") » Read Now
by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun, Josephine Waggoner, Emily Levine. 187 pgs.

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...Early Days 102 11. Crazy Horse, Tasunka Witco 104 13...Creek Fight, and Mari Sandoz Crazy Horse , 159, with Bettelyouns description...Press. Sandoz, Mari. 1942. Crazy...
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My People, the Sioux (Chap. VII "Custer's Last Fight and the Death of Crazy Horse") » Read Now
by Luther Standing Bear, E. A. Brininstool. 296 pgs.

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When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as 'one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had.' It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from the Indian point of view by an Indian.
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Land of the Spotted Eagle (Discussion of Crazy Horse begins on p. 178) » Read Now
by Luther Standing Bear. 266 pgs.

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Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem (Discussion of Crazy Horse begins on p. 235) » Read Now
by James C. Olson. 375 pgs.

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Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 (Chap. Seven "Wolf Mountains") » Read Now
by Jerome A. Greene. 336 pgs.

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'Perhaps some prefer myth to reality, but those who wish to know what it was really like on campaign in the West in the 1870s would scarcely do better than to read this riveting account.'--Washington Times
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Chap. XI "The Killing of Crazy Horse") » Read Now
by John G. Neihardt. 298 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library